The challenge of management

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Date
1962
Summary
This program is concerned with the role of the business manager, the person who brings together the land, the resources, the necessary labor, and the capital or means of production and sets all these turning to manufacture the things that people need or want. To indicate the functions of the business manager, the program visits a laundry – operated as a proprietorship, a filling station – operated as a partnership, and a large corporation. In dealing with the corporation, the program shows the varied responsibilities of Donald Douglas, general manager of the Reflective Products Division of the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company.
Contributors
William C. Bradford, Northwestern University; Meno Lovenstein, Ohio State University; Ross M. Robertson, Indiana University; W. Allen Wallis, University of Chicago; Ed Lang; Arthur Lodge; E.T. Weiler, Purdue University; Tom Countryman; Ed Shea; Dave Bartholomew; Walter Nolan; Charles Campbell; Ray Arn
Publishers
National Educational Television; Indiana University Audio-Visual Center
Genre
Educational
Subjects
Industrial management; Business management
Collection
National Educational Television
Unit
IUL Moving Image Archive
Rights Statement
No Copyright - United States

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